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午餐要吃什么,这是个问题

2010-01-12来源:和谐英语
Your advice
读者的建议

Move town
搬到小镇

Move to Goole. There are no tuna melts, no £7 superfood salads. Here, the "choice" is pies, pasties or pies. They will even pour gravy on your sandwiches if you let them. The good news is everything costs about £1.80, so your lunch is destroyed at source with relatively little expense.
搬到古耳来吧。这里没有什么金枪鱼三明治,也没有7英镑的超级食品沙拉。这里“可选的”是馅饼或派。如果你愿意的话,他们甚至会给你的三明治浇上肉汁。有利的一点是,每样东西都只卖1.8英镑左右。如此一来,即使你一开始就选错了午餐,代价也相对低廉。

Anon, male
匿名,男

Postpone food
推迟用餐

Eat later: your stomach will override your brain and choose for you. Or, by then, you will be too hungry to care.
晚点吃,你的胃就会压倒你的头脑,来为你作出选择。或者,到那时,你会因为太过饥饿而不在乎吃什么。

Anon
匿名

Phone a friend
打电话问朋友

I have the opposite problem: I know exactly what I want on most days, but my colleagues, like you, seem incapable of making a decision.
我的问题正相反:多数时候,我完全知道自己想吃什么;但我的同事们,与你一样,似乎无法决定自己要吃什么。

Their solution is to ask me, and then quite often to join me wherever I am going. It pains me to be making fundamental life decisions for other people, so I try to give them the slip and they simply default to the company canteen.
他们会问我,然后经常与我一起吃,无论我选择到哪里吃。为别人决定基本生活问题让我厌烦,因此我会设法甩掉他们,这时他们就索性在公司食堂吃。

Portfolio manager, male, 47
投资组合经理,男,47岁

Avoid sandwiches
别吃三明治

Soggy sandwiches create lethargic afternoons. We found a local caterer who specialises in providing a "nutritious lunch" - and such are the productivity improvements that the firm now contributes to the cost of our lunch.
湿乎乎的三明治会让你午后昏昏欲睡。我们找了本地一位包办伙食的人,他专门供应“营养午餐”——我们的工作效率因此得到提高,现在公司为我们出午餐的钱。

Lawyer, male
律师,男

Pack your lunch
自带午餐

Bring something from home. Then donate a fiver to a charity that provides food for those who do not have the luxury of choice.
从家里带吃的。然后捐出5英镑,给一家为那些没条件选择午餐的人提供食物的慈善组织。
 
Hedgie, male
对冲基金经理,男

改变惯例
I used to work long hours and every lunchtime I faced the same indecisions. The answer is to make work more interesting, mix up your routine a bit - ie, don't take out work frustrations on your food.

Ex-hedgie, male
前对冲基金经理,男

Try not eating
试着不吃

Either bring in your own sandwiches or fast. On the assumption that you do not have a vast array of sandwich fillings in your cupboard at home, it should not take too long to decide what to make. Fasting from time to time is good for the body's repair and helps you lose weight.
要么自带三明治,要么别吃。假设你家里橱柜里没有很多种做三明治的馅料,那么决定做什么三明治就应该不会花太多时间。偶尔禁食有利于身体的休整,还能帮助你减肥。

Investment manager, male, 52
投资经理,男,52岁

You are not hungry
你并不饿
午餐时间你并不饿,你只是感到厌烦。假如你饿了,你就会知道自己想吃什么,也许还没走到收银台的时候你就已经开始狼吞虎咽了。